Onscreen text reads:
The woman begins to sing the National Anthem.
Woman singing: O say can you see.
Screen cuts to view of the New York City skyline during the day.
Woman singing: By the dawn s early light.
Screen pans to Central Park.
Onscreen text reads: Vocal performance by Grace Victoria D’Haiti, Barnard College, 2021.
Screen pans over the Manhattan skyline, the Empire State Building, cuts to the skyline at night.
D’Haiti singing: What so proudly we hailed at the twilight s last gleaming.
Screen cuts to
The Thinker and other sculptures.
D’Haiti singing: Whose broad stripes and bright stars through the perilous fight.
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Nine Columbia professors have been elected members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, joining some of the world’s most accomplished leaders from academia, business, public affairs, the humanities, and the arts in one of the nation’s most prestigious honorary societies.
“We are honoring the excellence of these individuals, celebrating what they have achieved so far, and imagining what they will continue to accomplish,” said David Oxtoby, President of the American Academy. “The past year has been replete with evidence of how things can get worse; this is an opportunity to illuminate the importance of art, ideas, knowledge, and leadership that can make a better world.”
Celeste Sloman
Attorney General Letitia James is no stranger to a fight. After waging battles with the Trump administration, New York’s top legal officer – and the first woman of color to hold statewide office – is keeping her attention trained on the former president’s questionable real estate ventures, while also taking on Facebook, Google, the New York City Police Department and the National Rifle Association. This year, her office issued a damning report on New York’s undercount of nursing home deaths due to COVID-19, and she appointed two independent attorneys to investigate allegations of sexual harassment against Gov. Andrew Cuomo, a former ally who she might be well positioned to replace at some point in the future.
February 3, 2021 at 1:03 PM
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It was only a few days ago that we were telling you how stress and mental health issues were going through the roof at Columbia Law School and students said the administration was making the situation worse by doing things like enforcing a strict grading curve, eliminating reading week, and shortening the academic calendar. But despite a blizzard in the intervening time, tipsters at the law school say the admin has already made strides to help alleviate the pressure cooker students find themselves in this semester.
The good news and it’s really good news is that Dean Gillian Lester has responded to the, admittedly harsh, criticism thrown her way in a productive way, and seems dedicated to making real changes to help improve the material conditions for law students. If you’ll recall, the CLS Student Senate had a petition with specific demands like doing away with the shortened academic calendar, getting back a reading week, and making
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Things are not okay at Columbia Law School. While it’s true that the pandemic is making everything more difficult (indeed, we’ve heard rumblings of issues at other elite law schools; ahem, email us or text us 646-820-8477 to sound off), the situation has reached a critical level at the school. Indeed, in the fall semester, the CLS Student Senate conducted a survey on students’ mental health, and the results are shocking over 82 percent indicated that they experienced heightened anxiety, and over 65 percent indicated that they experienced heightened depression.
According to tipsters at the school, these concerns were communicated to Dean Gillian Lester in the fall but, from their perspective, not much was done about it. Many of the specific issues students cited were seemingly within the administration’s purview stuff like a shortened academic calendar, the elimination of a reading week, and mandated strict adherence to the grading curve. So in order to make the